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Utility bills, gasoline prices, and Ukraine

Dear Editor, Most of us simply want peace in our lives, nation, and world. We enjoy resting in a warm or cool house with something to eat, free from worry and stress. Peace is not always easy. This winter, chances are that your heating bill was chomping on your checking account and taking a huge bite out of your income. You may have turned your thermostat down and wore extra layers hoping to cut back on literally burning up your money.  People have reported gas and electric bills from $500 to over a $1,000 for one month of trying to…

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Utility bills, gasoline prices, and Ukraine

Dear Editor, Most of us simply want peace in our lives, nation, and world. We enjoy resting in a warm or cool house with something to eat, free from worry and stress. Peace is not always easy. This winter, chances are that your heating bill was chomping on your checking account and taking a huge bite out of your income. You may have turned your thermostat down and wore extra layers hoping to cut back on literally burning up your money.  People have reported gas and electric bills from $500 to over a $1,000 for one month of trying to…

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The means of grace

Throughout the Bible, language of family and friendship is used to talk about our relationship with God. Our relationship is spoken about using the language of marriage, using the language of friendship, and using the language of parents and children. Close relationships like these are always covenantal. A covenant is a relationship built on promises. Our relationship to God is a covenantal relationship too. He makes promises to us: to love us, to forgive our sins, to give us the gift of salvation, to help us unpack our baggage, to be with us always, to give us eternal life. And,…

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The new Republican movement

Dear Editor, Not content with its 2020 anti-democracy movement, Senate Republicans today have proudly crafted a new anti-children movement. They want to suffocate the current federal virus aid proposal, which would provide tests, treatments, and vaccines giving children a pathway to growth, health, and security in an Armageddon-like world. Polio vaccines for kids saved World War II era kids from debility and death. But now, as World War III looms, Republicans want to hold everyone else’s mostly poor kids hostage to their own peculiar notions of good health and good science. The Republican “health” program seeks to immunize the ultra-luxury…

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The new Republican movement

Dear Editor, Not content with its 2020 anti-democracy movement, Senate Republicans today have proudly crafted a new anti-children movement. They want to suffocate the current federal virus aid proposal, which would provide tests, treatments, and vaccines giving children a pathway to growth, health, and security in an Armageddon-like world. Polio vaccines for kids saved World War II era kids from debility and death. But now, as World War III looms, Republicans want to hold everyone else’s mostly poor kids hostage to their own peculiar notions of good health and good science. The Republican “health” program seeks to immunize the ultra-luxury…

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ADOT’s Tentative Five-Year Construction Program seeks public comment

Improving major corridors and upgrading pavement conditions is the proposed focus PHOENIX – Several highways carrying significant passenger and freight traffic are targeted for expansion and improvement during the next five years as part of the proposed annual update to the Arizona Department of Transportation’s list of projects that will be available for public comment began Friday, March 18. The 2023-2027 Tentative Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program allocates $571 million for projects that widen highways or improve interchanges, including: * Widening Interstate 17 north of Phoenix from Anthem Way to Sunset Point, plus adding flex lanes from Black Canyon City…

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